List of graduates of the Japanese Imperial Military Academies

This is a select list of graduates from the Japanese Imperial Military Academies (1891–1934). It is not complete.

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (Military Academy)[]

1891 Class[]

• Kazushige Ugaki: 1891

1897 Class[]

• Sadao Araki: November
• Jinsaburo Mazaki: November

1904 Class[]

• Tetsuzan Nagata: October

1905 Class[]

• Michitarō Komatsubara

1906 Class[]

• Hiroshi Ōshima

1908 Class[]

• Naruhiko Higashikuni

1912 Class[]

• Torashirō Kawabe: May

1915 Class[]

• Kitsuju Ayabe: May

1921 Class[]

• Akira Mutō: assigned to Military Academy, April

1922 Class[]

• Takushiro Hattori: July

1923 class[]

• Hiromichi Yahara

Graduates from the Japanese Army War College[]

The following were notable graduates of the Army War College:

1903 Class[]

• Hisaichi Terauchi: December

1909 Class[]

• Otozō Yamada: December

1910 Class[]

• Toshizō Nishio: graduated from War College, assigned to Military Affairs Bureau, November
• Koiso Kuniaki: November
• Gen Sugiyama: November
• Shunroku Hata: graduated with top scholarly rank, November

1911 Class[]

• Yoshijirō Umezu: November
• Tetsuzan Nagata: November

1912 Class[]

• Kenji Doihara: November

1913 Class[]

• Yasuji Okamura: November

1914 Class[]

• Rikichi Andō: December
• Keisuke Fujie: November
• Naruhiko Higashikuni

1915 Class[]

• Hiroshi Ōshima
• Hideki Tōjō: December
• Masaharu Homma: December
• Shōjirō Iida: December
• Hitoshi Imamura: December
• Masakazu Kawabe

1916 Class[]

• Seishirō Itagaki: November
• Tomoyuki Yamashita: November
• Shizuichi Tanaka
• Shigenori Kuroda: November
• Heitarō Kimura: November

1917 Class[]

• Renya Mutaguchi: November
• Jun Ushiroku: November
• Teiichi Suzuki: November
• (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Military Affairs Bureau, same Ministry)^{[citation needed]}
• (Chief, Second Bureau-Intelligence, Army General Staff)^{[citation needed]}
• (Chief, Third Bureau—Logistics, Army General Staff; Chief, General Affairs Bureau, do; Chief, Personnel Bureau, War Ministry)^{[citation needed]}
• (Chief, Third Bureau-Logistics, Army General Staff)^{[citation needed]}

1918 Class[]

• Korechika Anami: November
• Kiichiro Higuchi: November
• Kanji Ishiwara: November

1919 Class[]

• Hideyoshi Obata: December
• Sōsaku Suzuki: November

1920 Class[]

• Hidemitsu Nakano: November
• Kingoro Hashimoto
• Akira Mutō

1921 Class[]

• Torashirō Kawabe: November
• Harukichi Hyakutake: December

1922 Class[]

• Kiyotake Kawaguchi: November
• Hatazō Adachi: November
• Takushiro Hattori (Chief, Second Section operations, Army General Staff)
• (Chief, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry)^{[citation needed]}
• (Chief, Military Affairs Section, War Ministry)^{[citation needed]}

1923 Class[]

• Tadamichi Kuribayashi: November
• Hong Sa-ik
• Okikatsu Arao (Koko) (Chief, Shipping Section, Army General Staff; senior Staff Officer, Army Affairs Section, War Ministry; Chief, Third Section—Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staff)
• (Chief, War Materiel Section, War Ministry; and an officer who, like Col Arao, had the confidence of War Minister Anami)^{[citation needed]}
• (Chief, Third Section-Organization and Mobilization, Army General Staffs post which he held before the author assumed it; and Senior Adjutant, War Ministry)^{[citation needed]}
• Makoto Matsutani (Chief, 20th Group-War Coordination, Army General Staff; Military Secretary to Prime Minister Suzuki)^{[citation needed]}

1925 Class[]

• Shizuo Yokoyama: November

1927 Class[]

• Takeshi Mori: December

1929[]

• Hiromichi Yahara: returned as an instructor 1937-1940

1930 Class[]

• Takushiro Hattori: November
• Masutaro Nakai: December

1931 Class[]

• Masanobu Tsuji

1937 Class[]

• José Laurel III

1944 Class[]

• Takagi Masao (3rd President of South Korea, also known as Park Chung-hee)

Graduates in Military Overseas Studies[]

• Shunroku Hata: Military Student, Germany, March 1912
• Hisaichi Terauchi: Military Student, Germany, February 1913
• Yoshijirō Umezu: Military Student, Germany, April 1913
• Masaharu Homma: Military Student, England, August 1918 (and served as observer with British forces in France)
• Hitoshi Imamura: Military Student, England, April 1918; Assistant Military Attaché, England, October 1918
• Naruhiko Higashikuni: Resident Officer, France, studying military tactics, April 1920
• Tomoyuki Yamashita: Military Student. Germany, July 1921
• Hideyoshi Obata: Military Student, England, April 1923; Major, March 1926
• Minoru Sasaki: Military Student, U.S.S.R., September 1927; same for Poland and U.S.S.R., August 1928
• Torashirō Kawabe: Resident Officer, Riga, Latvia (studying Soviet military affairs), January 1926-September 1928

Students in Army Cavalry School[]

• Kitsuju Ayabe: Equitation Student, October 1917

Graduates from Artillery and Engineering School[]

• Takeo Yasuda: July 1916

Graduates from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy[]

• Kantarō Suzuki: 1887
• Mitsumasa Yonai: 1901
• Shigetarō Shimada: November 1904

Graduates from the Naval War College[]

• Kantarō Suzuki: 1898
• Shigetarō Shimada: Class "A" Student, December 1913
• Mitsumasa Yonai: 1913